Comments on: Guardian 24185/Araucaria – out of characterhttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/
Never knowingly undersolved.Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:30:13 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: ilancaronhttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4763
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:53:43 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4763yes sorry about the “life interrupting” thing — can’t promise it won’t happen again. Life has a nasty habit of knocking on the door. insistently (often, at the risk of being sexist, in a female voice).

Next time I’ll have the courage of my convictions and assert more firmly that I don’t believe Araucaria wrote this etc.

]]>By: Alihttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4759
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:23:46 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4759I raced through most of this in a 10-minute Tube journey and it all seemed very non-Araucarian. It wasn’t until I checked the paper version in Tesco on my way home that I realised that there are issues with the website. Still, nice to see we’re in for fun and games tomorrow.

Al

]]>By: Fletchhttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4757
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:41:17 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4757Ah I see, confusing then because it says the blog was posted at 2.37 but I presume that was the time of the explanation it was going to be late. Anyway, thank you Simon, amusing you and Testy were straight in with appropriate comments!
]]>By: Simply_simonhttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4755
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:11:45 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4755Fletch, Now that Ilancaron has removed his explanation that he was posting late because something had come up – “life’s like that”, or similar, my comment becomes impenetrable. But that’s what I was referring to.
]]>By: muckhttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4754
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:49:01 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4754Ilancaron: are sure this was an Araucaria? I have emailed the Guardian Reader’s editor saying I’m not sure. Perhaps more likely to be the online attribution was wrong.
]]>By: Fletchhttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4753
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:46:26 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4753Am I missing something? Where does Ilan say anything about real life having taken priority over the blog?
]]>By: muckhttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4751
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:07:55 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4751Never guessed this was an Araucaria, the paper version attributing it to Quantum!
]]>By: Fred Dowsonhttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4750
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:42 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4750Am I the only one to notice that the newspaper version has 5) across given as 4-4 when there are only seven letters? (4-3)
Fred
]]>By: beermagnethttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4745
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:48:07 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4745Very out of character for Araucaria – despite being attributed to him by the online service, the paper has this crossword set by Quantum.
Yesterday’s Rufus was attributed to Quantum online.
I suspect tomorrow we will be treated to an A.
]]>By: Jimhttp://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4744
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:53:43 +0000http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/18/guardian-24185placeholder/#comment-4744I think 20D is solved thus: MELODIOUS (ie:”sweet”)- MEL (honey) = ODIOUS.
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